[78-L] Too late to circle the wagons

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 04:25 PM 8/12/2009, you wrote:

>There are a lot of NPR stations that are doing this. I have a 
>feeling that NPR is strong-arming stations into playing more of 
>their programming and threatening to pull their affiliation if 
>stations do not do so. This happened with KCLU in Thousand Oaks, 
>which was a jazz station when I started with them in 1994. Little by 
>little, NPR programs took over the airwaves until virtually no live 
>local programming was left. It is now 90% network news, NPR's 
>special interest game shows, and local talk with only a few 
>scattered hours of jazz left. Some programs, such as Prairie Home 
>Companion and Car Talk are played TWICE weekly.
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>Cary Ginell
>

Or maybe it's just a whole lot cheaper for a station to run NPR with 
a skeleton staff for a few local shows than have a really good 
station with a full staff.

> > Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:54:09 -0500
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > From: bratcher at pdq.net
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Too late to circle the wagons
> >
> > We have 3 college stations that possibly use student DJ's & staff
> > however I think 88.7 (KUHF) which is owned by the University Of
> > Houston with a classical/NPR format is run by professionals. For one
> > thing they play too much NPR & not enough classical to keep me as a
> > listener. I don't listen to the other college station very much if at all.
> >
> >